A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for technical education programs in the North Carolina Community College System.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community Colleges System Office the sum of four million eleven thousand nine hundred forty‑nine dollars ($4,011,949) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year for technical education programs. These funds shall be allocated at follows:
(1)	$1,361,162 for weighted funding at 1.5;
(2)	$325,000 for marketing and advertising;
(3)	$300,000 for curriculum improvement projects;
(4)	$300,000 for new program start‑ups; and
(5)	$1,725,797 for new and replacement equipment in technical education programs.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.